Good evening, fellas. How’s your Sunday? Good or bad? Share with us. Now, let’s move to the today’s session. What will it be? It will be #IOTW. Oh, wait. Do you know what is #IOTW, fellas? ;)

“#IOTW stands for Idiom Of The Week.” – @ziayazid

Let’s start it!

1. Full of beans. Meaning: energetic; frisky.
   • Example:
     • “Rick Savage may be getting old but he’s still full of beans.”
2. Sell like hot cakes. Meaning: (for something) to be sold very fast.
   • Example:
     • “Def Leppard’s fourth album, Hysteria, sold like hot cakes.”
3. Cheesed off. Meaning: angry; disgusted; annoyed.
   • Example:
     • “Andy Summers was absolutely cheesed off with Stewart’s joke.”
4. Sharp cookie. Meaning: one who can identify attempts to deceive or mislead.
   • Example:
     • ” You can’t fool Robert Smith. He’s a sharp cookie.”
5. Cool as a cucumber. Meaning: extremely calm; imperturbable.
   • Example:
     • “Sting will be on stage in 5 minutes but he stays as cool as a cucumber.”
6. Cry over spilled milk. Meaning: to be unhappy about what cannot be undone.
   • Example:
     • “Tina Turner cannot accept the reality. She is crying over spilled milk.“
7. Be as keen as mustard. Meaning: to be very eager.
   • Example:
     • ” I think we should ask Phil Perry to join the choir. He’s as keen as mustard.”
8. Of the first water. Meaning: of the finest quality.
   • Example:
     • “Eric Clapton gave a performance that was of the first water.”
9. Small potatoes. Meaning: something insignificant or unimportant.
   • Example:
     • “The contract which was offered to Prince was small potatoes.”
10. Soup to nuts. Meaning: from beginning to end.
    • Example:
      • “Paula Abdul told the story of her life to the journalists from soup to nuts.”

That’s all for tonight. See you tomorrow, fellas. Cheerio! :D

Compiled and written by @fabfebby at @EnglishTips4U on Sunday, September 15, 2013.

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^MD